The Arctic literally needs to be put on the map.
I am here to seek funding for a new Coast Guard duty station or port on Alaska's western or northern coast.
Let us not be led down the easy path to invest America's foreign aid dollars in exploration abroad.
Alaska is America's Arctic. It is our home. It is our history, our heritage, and our future.
Also, the Arctic has very little emergency response capability for an area that is so vast and remote.
Domestic energy supplies support national and homeland security.
I appreciate that commitment. I appreciate all that the Coast Guard does to serve us here in Alaska and around the count...
But that too is part of this needs assessment that you are undertaking to determine exactly what that is.
The Arctic's abundant resources; human and natural, and our strategic location for national security demand our attentio...
And yet basing them, whether it is a helicopter or otherwise, in an area where you do not have a hangar facility where y...
I am urging the Congress to support the ground-based missile defense system in Alaska and reconsider the proposal to sca...